Essays Tagged: "genres"

The Tragedy Within The Romance (Winter's Tale)

rough the combination of the Greek novels and Shakespearean comedies. This alliance between the two genres is apparent in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale. The most obvious indication to this suggestion is ...

(2 pages) 53 0 5.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

History Of Jazz

ch and the early days jazz and blues music has evolved to many different things. We now have enough genres or styles of music to need binomial nomenclature but just enjoying the music we have today is ... eir yearning to break away from tradition. Jazz was also monumental because it was one of the first genres of music where both blacks and whites helped shape it. Although mainly pioneered by black art ...

(7 pages) 221 0 3.9 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

SITUATION COMEDY: CHARACTERS, STEREOTYPING and IDEOLOGIES - a 400-word hand-out for Popular Television module seminar.

ping, Fictions and IdeologiesSitcoms have more a general grip on their audiences than other popular genres which have obvious connections with more general ideological formations, like the spy thrille ... ormations, like the spy thrillers in the 1960s or the crime series in the 1970s.Ryall suggests that genres can be defined as patterns, forms, styles and structures, which mean that the viewer knows ev ...

(2 pages) 76 0 4.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Diversity in films.

ts the difference in the way we see the film. It can either be funny, sad, realistic, scary or many genres in one. Such as Trainspotting. Its funny, its realistic and its also sad in a sense to see pe ...

(4 pages) 75 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

Star wars generic core explanation.

tly and subconsciously classifying and grouping each object, event or action that takes place. Thus genres are born. The word genre is a term used to state a group of things that share the same charac ... a strange or odd movie, or a new category is made to suit it.Stanley John Solomon says a genre all genres have similar elements, the elements which group them, Solomon says genres have cores, Generic ...

(3 pages) 63 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

A Comparison between two film's portraying aboriginal racism-Rabbit Proof Fence and Yolungu Boy

A comparison of these two films would be made focusing on themes, major characters and symbols.The genres in both films are very similar because they both are focusing on one thing, aboriginals. Both ...

(5 pages) 65 0 4.6 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Finding Emo: A Comprehensive explanation and look at the evolution and existence of Emo as a music genre as well as cultural influence.

neral aspect of music than its development and presence in the world, one can break down music into genres, target groups, geographical popularity, and so on. One such genre is a new type of music whi ...

(6 pages) 67 3 4.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Vonnegut expresses ideas on fatalism throughout Slaughterhouse 5 through an essective science fiction medium

creative license to the author. It allows him to create situations that would never occur in other genres, but still lets the reader consider even the most outrageous of events with the same seriousn ...

(3 pages) 45 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Explain how Shakespeare's portrayal of characters in Act1 of 'Measure for Measure' link with its genre of a problem play.

Act1 link with its genre of a problem play.Measure for Measure does not fit neatly into any of the genres of most of Shakespeare's other plays. It contains elements from both genres of tragedy and co ... we can already see why Measure for Measure is labelled as a problem play. There are aspects of both genres of tragedy and comedy and they about balance each other out so that this play cannot be fitte ...

(6 pages) 44 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Anime/Manga 101. Anime Genres, difference between Anime and Manga, art styles, and recommendations...

While some people think Anime is a genre, it is in fact, actually an art form that incorporates all genres found in television and books. The plots range from romantic comedies to science fiction and ...

(3 pages) 59 0 4.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

History of country music

the most popular music forms of the 20thcentury. In fact, country music is one of the best-selling genres afterrock/pop. This site will take you from country music's origins in the late19th century t ... will take you from country music's origins in the late19th century through all the changes and sub-genres that have developedover the past 100 years or so.To better understand country music, it is he ...

(3 pages) 58 1 4.1 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Transcending Wuthering Heights

ding fascination stems from the fact that the novel not only incorporates elements from a number of genres, but interrogates these different elements by creating a tension between them. So, for exampl ... e of familiar detail provided by the text's realism is challenged by the transgressive power of the genres of fantasy and horror, gratifying both what Henry James has called 'the taste of emotions of ...

(7 pages) 49 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Romeo and Juliet Discuss to what extent act one scene five of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, is crucial to the play.

ieved that his first play was a comedy called 'Comedy of Errors' written in approximately 1592. The genres of his plays vary, supposedly showing his moods. In approximately 1594 he wrote four times th ...

(7 pages) 64 1 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

An essay about the science fiction film genre.

ion is adaptive; it changes with the times and this trend can be seen in its incorporation of other genres, cultural history and technology. This essay will attempt to define the genre, chronicle the ... the science fiction film genre a problem occurs. The distinction between science fiction and other genres is not always clear cut. Many movies span between the science fiction genre and other genres. ...

(7 pages) 207 2 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

Write an essay of not more than 1500 words, referring to Great Expectations and Frankenstein, discussing how origins are explored through realist and other conventions.

rough using the, occasionally very loose, framework of the realist novel both seek to explore other genres to illustrate the wider psychological impact of the search for one's origin.In Great Expectat ... he depths ofthe central characters can only be fully explored through using the conventions of othergenres. The boundaries between the genres are so fluid that it is plausible to incorporate amultitud ...

(7 pages) 101 1 4.7 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

MEDIA COURSEWORK

such has developed clear patterns in terms of audience expectation. Audiences watch many different genres such as Horror, Sci-fi, Horror Sci-fi, Action Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller, Comedy and many m ... set in the future in huge cities or in deep space. In a horror sci-fi you expect to see the genres horror and sci-fi merged together, An example of this could be a terrifying storyline set in ...

(6 pages) 39 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Review Of the Film Dead Man Walking GCSE Media Assignment (Recieved A)

GCSE Media AssignmentDead Man WalkingWhat do you get when you mix: crime genres, Oscar deserving performances from top actors such as Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon, mix it a ...

(3 pages) 53 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Evaulation Argument of "About a Boy" (with bibliography)

r through coincidental events and find comfort and acceptance in each other. The movie crosses many genres such as comedy and drama. About a boy is a drama because of the serious relationship between ...

(4 pages) 48 1 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Compare and Contrast the movies "Grease" and "The Outsiders".

y surprise, 'Grease' and 'The Outsiders' do have some very similar characteristics. Even though the genres are different, they have similar themes. Not surprisingly, sound and lighting had almost no s ... we see them drunk throughout a lot of the movie. Even though these films have similar themes, their genres are quite different. 'Grease' is a light hearted Musical, whereas 'The Outsiders' is a Drama. ...

(4 pages) 91 1 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Notes on Two Modernist Movements and 2 Artists in Each Movement and 8 paintings Evaluated using the Frames.

rary life or thought[n] genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres[n] the quality of being current or of the present; a shopping mall would instill a spirit of ...

(23 pages) 194 1 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists